October 26, 2000 Hotline

October 26, 2000

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Christmas Party
Make sure and sign up for the Christmas party to be held in Tempe December 14^th.
Kyle Sims and his Membership Committee have got the news on this posted everywhere. Act
now and get a discount.

PBS Balloting

Mayo health Plan

enrollment package for you to review
shortly. Please read it carefully.

You will have until 11/30/2000 to
submit these new forms. As before, if you have no changes, you will not have to submit
another Open Enrollment Form. This plan is in addition to all of our current plans and
this addition will not affect our current CIGNA PPO and HMO plans. For more information,

please look for a R & I Committee
Special Bulletin in the glass case and on the ALPA web site in the near future.

PilotNews

All you need to do to subscribe to the
Pilotnews list is…Send an email message to [email protected].
In the body of the message put: subscribe Pilotnews (your name)

You will soon get an automated reply
back from the listserver. Keep this for your reference, as it contains information about
how the list works.

You’ll get far more detail about
what’s going on if you subscribe to PilotNews than you can via this hotline or our
print publications. Put this at the top of your list this week.

Who Supports Governor Bush?

Webcast Follies Part II

Human Capital

United Airlines has been taking a lot
of heat from the financial community lately because of its poor short term performance.
But United’s management has been looking over the horizon. They recognize that in the
future the successful airlines will be those that build the biggest and strongest
networks. An airline network requires huge numbers of skilled employees, and United has
become the biggest talent magnet in the industry. They’ve laid down the challenge.
“You want to compete in this business? You’re going to have to provide a great
place to work.”

Look around the industry. The real
successes are the ones that look beyond the balance sheet. They’re the ones who know
the real value of human capital.

That’s it for this week. The next
hotline will be Thursday, November 2. Thanks for listening.

• Christmas Party
• PBS Balloting
• Mayo Health Plan
• PilotNews
• Who Supports Governor Bush?
• Webcast Follies Part II
• Human Capital

		MEC Hotline
		Good evening, this is MEC Chairman Roger Cox with the hotline message for Thursday, October 26. Tonight’s topics are: You should have received an explanation of the PBS voting process in the mail this week. If you did not, it’s probably because we don’t have your correct address. You can update your address and phone number on the ALPA web site or by calling our office. Members in good standing will be voting on PBS the second week of November. The Company has decided to offer pilots an additional health plan this year. The Mayo Health Plan HMO can be offered only to pilots whose official AWA address is in Maricopa County and Apache Junction. For those pilots who reside in these areas, Employee Benefits will send you an additional HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO PILOTNEWS: Go to www.opensecrets.org and type in “Francisco Lorenzo” in the “contributors” search. Yep. The one and only. America West top management now says last weeks webcast remarks about retroactivity were a mistake. What’s mistake number two? Not saying so very publicly and very candidly to the people affected: the pilots. We’re waiting. In the mean time, the mood is getting ugly. We’re hot about our crummy operation. We’re hot about the money we waste. We’re hot about the implied disrespect for the bargaining process. Stay tuned, this isn’t over. A current study by Margaret Blair of the Brookings Institution focuses on understanding intangible sources of value. It says that traditional financial accounting systems may account for as little as 25% of the real value of a corporation because they have no way to account for intangibles like copyrights, patents, research, and intellectual resources. An airline’s most important intangible is the skill and motivation of its employees. America West has been letting that intangible asset erode because it doesn’t show up on the balance sheet.